Christmas almost didn’t come this year
Cause I was too busy for tinsel and cheer.
There was work to be done and events to plan.
If I didn’t watch it, all would get out of hand.
I had people to care for and money to make--
Other years would come, and Christmas could wait.
There were no decorations adorning the house,
No cookies, no presents. I guess I’m a louse.
No Christmas tree with an angel on top,
Even the nativity scene lay snug in its box.
Then,
It came.
It came unexpected. It came unannounced.
It came with a shake and rattled my house.
It was a miracle--
The miracle of life
It came in her smile, and it cut like a knife,
In an emergency room in a hospital bed,
When her gaze met mine--
Is that how it happened, oh so many years?
It came in the silence, it came amidst fears,
This miracle of life--
He came in His love, His mercy and grace.
He came to share life in a dark, wretched place.
And so few took notice the miracle had come.
They lived in their shadows.
We live there today.
Yet, Christmas came.
It came anyway.
Written several years ago after Katie was hanging Christmas lights with her dad and touched a power line into the house.
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